The Bedford Independent
Wed., Aug. 16, 1865

LOCAL FACTS AND FANCIES

A despairing man tears his hair. Bill SKOVENDYK says an enraged woman is wiser--she tears her husband's. Bill is a married man.

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PETERSON, for September, is upon our table, and is a fair sample of that popular magazine. Send $2 to Charles J. PETERSON, Philadelphia, and you will receive the book for one year.

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BOOTS AND SHOES.--J. CADWALADER, Son & Co., of New Albany, have a full, complete stock of Boots and Shoes, which they offer at wholesale, to country merchants. These goods are bought directly of the manufacturers, and will be sold at a small commission.

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RAY, MAYHEW & CO.--The card of Ray, Mayhew & Co., will be found among our new advertisement today, to which we call the attention of merchants. Mr. Mayhew, who has been for the past six weeks in the Eastern market, will visit Bedford with samples, about the 25th inst.

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FRANCIS & MALOTT are still in receipt of a large stock of clothing and furnishing goods, and are meeting with a rapid sale for the same. Peter J. Francis is handling the shears, and Thomas H. Malott presides at the counter, so customers will be well waited upon as well as fitted to order. Store south side of the Public Square.

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EARL & HATCHER.--The firm, throught their gentlemanly agent, Mr. BANGS, is well and favorably known in this locality, and by their prompt and honorable dealings, have secured a large trade from our merchants. By reference to our advetising columns today, it will be seen that they offer an unusually large and well selected stock of groceries to the trade, and desire a continuance and extension of the liberal patronage they already enjoy.

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STILL THE RAIN DESCENDS.--We are still treated to regular installments of the aqueous particles, notwithstanding it must be evident to the Superintendent of such affairs that this persistency tends to "throw a damper: over all mundane enterprises. A Reverend gentleman, once upon a time, so the story goes, during a great drouth, prayed for rain, "not a tremedous shower that would carry the fences, buildings and haystacks away, but a sort of drizzle drozzle: that would last a month. Some of our eloquent Divines must have been repeating this petition, and overdone the thing.

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THE CARNIVAL OF CRIME.--Crime is holding high carnival over the length and breadth of our fair land. The leading dailies are crowded with the sickening details of murder and deeds more corrupting than murder. And this bloody history is not confined to the great cities or crowded districts alone, but localities hitherto remarkable for tranquility and innnocent rusticity, have become notorious by the deeds of a few months past. Something more potent and salutary than the administration of law and justice, must needs be resorted to before a better state of things will prevail, but what that something is, remains to be developed.

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TOO BAD!.--Persons who are drilling an oil well, near Mitchell, on Mr. ERWIN's farm, have been compelled to suspend operations in the regular way, until the gold quartz can be removed, which they struck last week. The stratum of gold is supposed to be about ten feet in thickness, which will occassion a delay of at least three weeks before the petroleum can be reached; the latter substance, it is thought, lying just on the other side. Very provoking, certainly, but such disappointments may be expected by those who bore in Lawrence county. Mitchell may yet become a second Virginia City--who knows?

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COMMISSIONER'S COURT.--The next session of this Court will be held on the 1st Monday in Sept., and will, as is usual with fall term, be a busy one. The members of the Board are: Wm. ANDERSON of Marshall township, A. C. BURTON, of Marion township, and Wm. A. HOLLAND, Flinn township. As now constituted, the Board is the most efficient and working one ever had in Lawrence county--striving to act conscientiously in all matters brought before them, and general satisfaction is expressed by all with whome they are brought into contact in an official capacity. The term of Mr. Holland expires with this meeting, and a successor will be elected in October.

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"GOOSEY, GOOSEY, GANDER."--It is currently reported, and vouched for upon good authority, that the square in Bedford, is perambulated by lineal descendants of the geese that one saved Rome--descendants also of those immortalized by Go..?.. where he speaks of the "Noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool'" and during business hours, these sturdy ganders and their gray "better-halfs" can be seen diligently larding the thin earth," while engaged in noisy discussion over bovine foeces. Is there no ordinance against the wandering of these historical fowls? If so, why is it not enforced by our worthy Marshal?

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MYSTERIOUS--A large bay mare was found lying dead in the road, two miles east of town, on Sunday morning; a saddle with the girth cut, was discoverd in an adjacent field, and a young colt standing near, exhausted from fatigue. The supposition is, that the mare was ridden to death by some person from a distance, (as no owner can be found for the property,) and that, remaining concealed over Sunday, he went in search of another animal after dark, upon which to pursue his headlong flight; this he found at a stable near the square, and a gay young cavalier, who had come to "meeting," was compelled to "foot it" home over a weary mile and a half. The horse had been tuned loose, however, and returned to his owner's farm on Monday.

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INCORPORATION.--A petition numerously signed, has been presened to the Board of Trustees, praying that the incorporation may be annulled, and setting up as a reason therefor, that the benfits derived from it, are not a sufficient compensation for the expense incurred. In other words, that the town government has not been administered with sufficient ability to make incorporation popular or profitable. We will not set up our humble judgment in opposition to the expressed opinion of a large mass of the tax-payers, but we would suggest that the incorporation appurtenances of Mitchell, be exchanged for those of our town. No fault has yet found with town government as administered there, and we doubt very much whether a propositon to do away with it, would receive the sanction of its citizens.

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HISTORY.--The Great Eastern is slowly making its way across the Atlantic, laying the immense cable which it is hoped will bind the two continents indissoulubly together, and while this great enterprise is going on, PALMER, DUNCAN & Co. are selling off their immense stock of clothing and furnishing goods, at such rates as excite the surprise and admiration of purchasing hundreds. In order to get on an early Fall Stock, these gentlemen are disposing of the stock on hand at a very small profit. A fine stock of Hats are included among the goods offered for sale at this establishment, and like the rest, are first class, and sold at reasonable prices.

P. S. --Since writing the above, we learn that Juett MESSICK has started for Boston, to lay in a Fall Stock. He will touch at Cleveland, Albany, Buffalo, and all intermediate points, purchasing goods at every place, which will be immediately shipped to Bedford, so that any unusual stir in town, during the next four weeks, may be attributed to the receipt by Palmer, Duncan & Co. of choice Eastern fabrics.

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CHURCH DECORUM.--Kind reader, do you attend church? We do. It is the greatest solace of our declining years; a privilege we would not forego unless throught compulsion. In fact, we, the virtuous, upright editor of the Independent, are pious. We can't help it; our vocation tends that way as naturally as water runs down hill, and we are not sorry for it either, as it's a "good thing in a family." We are much pained, during hours of worship, by the inattention and indecorous conduct of some of our brethren, and long to point out to them the error of their ways, that they may turn therefrom. On returning from these asemblys, we frequently retire to our closet, and there wrestle with the spirit, not for a moment forgetting the class to which we revert. But if the prayers of the righteous availed much in bygone times, their virtue has gone out from them now, as no perceptible change is noticeable in the conduct we so much deprecate. The following is a phonographic report of a conversation heard in church. last Sabbath, the truthfulness of which, no one will dare gainsay:

That tall young fellow's here to-day!
I wonder what's his name?
His eyes are fixed upon our pew--
Do look at Sallie Jame.

Who's that young lady dressed in green?
It can't be Mrs. Deach;
There's Mrs. Jones with Deacon Giles,
I wonder if he'll preach.

Lend me your fan, it is so warm,
We both will sit in prayers;
Mourning becomes the Widow Ames;
How Mary's bonnet flares!

Do look at Nancy Sleeper's veil,
It's full a breadth too wide;
I wonder if Susannah Ayers
Appears to-day as bride!

Lord! what a voice Liz. Rice has got,
Oh! how the organ roars--
I'm glad we've left the singer's seat;
How hard Mrs. Johnson snores.

What ugly shawls these are in front!
Did you observe Ann Wild?
Her new straw bonnet's trim'd with black,
I guess she's lost a child.

I'm half asleep, that Mr. Jones,
His sermons are so long;
This afternoon we'll stay at home,
And practice that new song.

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NOW AND THEN.--Although the North has experienced none of the ravaging effects of the late war, in any degree proportionate to that felt at the South, and although every branch of business was successfully carried on during the war just as before, we cannot help remarking a vast difference between then and now, even in our own little village. With what eagerness was the coming of every mail looked for, and with what anxiety were the telegraphic dispatches of the daily papers read. Those were the days when every breeze from the South wafted the clash of arms; when Liberty and Freedom were engaged in a struggle for life or death with Slavery and Aristocracy; when patriots rejoiced at National victories, and grew more determined when meeting with reverses; when the Copperheads of Lawrence county wore long faces upon hearing of a Union victory, and were intensely happy and boldly spouted treason on every occasion of our defeat. Those were the days when Union men were insulted upon our streets, and many of them actually notified to leave; when enrolling officers and soldiers were being constantly murdered by Copperheads; when the Copperheads of this county were holding meetings and adopting resolutions declaring that they would 'resist the draft to the death,' and on any intimation of soldiers approaching such meetings, each valiant knight of the shot-gun order would incontinently vault into his saddle and off, without an effort to vindicated his "rights."

How is it now? Where are the cowardly shot-gun ignoramusses who paraded their emblems of treason while shouting like fiends incarnate for Vallandingham and Jeff Davis? Oh, ye valiant K. G. O.'s (Could be C.) What a mighty change has come o'er the spirit of your dreams! Now you sometimes go so far as to say 'we' when speaking of the success of the Government in putting down the rebellion, very much as the story of Betsy and the Bear.

Where are your leaders; those wise, shining, Copperhead lights, who solemnly assured you the South could never be whipped; that it "wouldn't do to coerce our Sourthern brethren," oh no, it wouldn't do a tall. Why did they not go to the aid our their Southern friends and fight with them, to establish an Aristocracy, based on money made by buying and selling human beings, many their own blood relatives? Was it because they were not in heart-felt sympathy with Southern traitors, or that when the time for action arrived, Their courage failed them? We merely ask for information.

Petition to Sell Land.
State of Indiana,
Lawrence County, ss.
Notice is hereby given that Thomas R. COBB, Administrator of the estate of Jesse L. CAIN, deceased, has filed his petition to sell the real estate of the decedent, his personal being insufficient to pay his debts; and that said petition will be heard at the next Term of the court of Common Pleas of Lawrence county, Ind.

Thos. R. COBB, Adm'r.

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Administrator's Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed, by the Clerk of Common Pleas of Lawrence count, Indiana, Administrator de bouis non, of the estate of John FERGUSON, late of Lawrence county, deceased.

The estate is probably solvent.

David L. FERGUSON, Administrator.

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Notice of Non-Residence.
Lawrence Court of Common Pleas,
October Term, 1865

In Partition.

Nancy GREER,
Elizabeth EDWARDS,
Allen EDWARDS,
Catharine COULTER,
John V. COULTER,
Jesse GREER and
John GREER

vs.

Spencer GREER,
David GREER,
Mary STACKHOUSE,
Henry STACKHOUSE,
Noah GREER.

Whereas a complaint has been filed in the Clerk's Office of the Common Pleas Court of Lawrence county, in the State of Indiana, in the above entitled cause, and also an affidavit of a disinterested person, showing that Spencer GREER, one of the above named defendants, is a non-resident of the State of Indiana, and that a cause of action exists against him in favor of the above named plaintiffs therein, in relation to real estate, and that he is a necessary party to said action, he is therefore, hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint, and that the action therein will stand for trial at the next Term of Lawrence Court of Common Pleas, which will begin and be holden at the Court House, in Bedford, on the first Monday in October, 1865.

Witness my hand as Clerk of said Court, the 8th day of August, 1865.

John RILEY, Clerk.
Aug. 9, 1865.

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Francis McBRIDE's Estate.

The undersigned has received from the Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas, letters testamentary upon the estate of Francis McBride, deceased. Said estate is solvent.

N. F. MALOTT, Executor.

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NOTICE.

Is hereby given, that the undersigned will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Lawrence county, Indiana, at its next Term, in September, 1865, for the vacation of so much of the Ohio & Mississippi Avenue, and Fifth Street in Mitchell, in said county, as is included in the following boundaries, namely:

A part of the Ohio and Mississippi Avenue lying south of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, from the north-west corner of lot No. 400 in said town, to the middle of the right of way of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad; and also, a part of Fifth Street in said town, lying east of the last mentioned railroad from the south-west corner of lot No. 402 in said town to the middle of the right of way of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad.

John F. BAIRD,
Lewis J. BLAIR.
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad Company, (by CARLTON and PUTNAM, Attorneys.)
August 2, 1865.
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DISSOLUTION.

The partnership heretofore exisiting between W. S. RIELY & John W. MITCHELL, is this day dissolved by mutual consent, and the withdrawal of John W. Mitchell. All persons indebted to the late firm will please call at once and settle their accounts.

The drug business will be continued by W. S. RIELY.

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Petition to sell Real Estate.
State of Indiana
Lawrence co.

Notice is hereby given that John BLACKWELL, Administrator of Franklin KIMBLEY, deceased, has filed his petition to sell the real estate of said decedent, his personal estate being insufficient to pay his debts; and that said petition will be heard at the next term of the Court of Common Pleas, of Lawrence county, Indiana.

Witness my hand, this 27th day of June, 1865.

John RILEY, Clerk.

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Notice of Executor's Appointment.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Executor of the will of Rebecca McDONALD, late of Lawrence county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent.

P. A. PARKS, Executor.

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Petition to Sell Real Estate.

State of Indiana, Lawrence co. ss:

Notice is hereby given that Anna DILLEY, Administratrix of the estate of Uriah DILLEY, deceased, has filed her petition to sell the real estate of said decedent, his personal estate being insufficient to pay his debts; and that said petition will be heard at the next term of the Court of Common Pleas of said conty.

Attest: John RILEY
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Lawrence county.

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NOTICE!

Is hereby given, that I will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Lawrence county, Indiana, at their next Term, commencing on the first Monday in Sept. 1865, for a license to sell "Intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time," (with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on my premises) for one year. My place of business, and the premises whereon said liquors are to be drank, are located in a brick house, on Lot No. 208, in the town of Bedford, Shawswick township, Lawrence county, Indiana.

Jacob HOFF.

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Notice of Application for License.

Notice is hereby given that I will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Lawrence county, Ind., at their next term, commencing on the first Monday in June, 1865, for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time (with the privilege of allowing the same to be drunk on my premises) for one year. The precise location in which the undersigned desires to carry on said business is on Lot No. 3, in the Town of Tunnelton, Lawrence county, Indiana.

John WARD.

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Notice

Is hereby given, that I will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Lawrence county, Indiana, at their next Term, commencing on the first Monday in Sept. 1865, for a license to sell "Intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time" (with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on my premises) for one year. My place of business, and the premises whereon said liquors are to be drank, are located in the two story brick building on Lot No. 209, on Upper High Street, in the Town of Bedford, Shawswick township, Lawrence county, Indiana.

Henry EWALT.

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Estray Bay Horse

Taken up by Thomas BANKS, of Baker township, Martin county, Indiana, on the 6th day of June, 1865, one bay horse, with white in the forehead, large bell on, three shoes, supposed to be ten years old. Appraised at $45 before John MOSER, J. P. of Baker township.

R. C. STEPHENS, C. M. C.
By L. STEPHENS, Deputy.

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Notice of Application for License

Notice is hereby given, that I will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Lawrence county, Indiana, at their next Term, commencing on the first Monday in Sept., 1865, for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time, (with the privilege of allowing the same to be drunk on my premises,) for one year. My place of business, and the premises whereon said liquors are to be drunk, are located in the two story brick building on the south part of Lot No. 205, in the town of Bedford, Shawswick township, Lawrence County, Indiana.

David JOHNSON.

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DISCHARGE LOST.

The undersigned lost his discharge from the 50th Ind. Vols., Co. A, at or between Cincinnati, O., and home, 1 1/2 miles north-west of Fayetteville, on the Bloomfield Road, on the 2d day of July, 1865. Any person finding the same, and returning it to me, or leaving it where I can get it, will be liberally rewarded.

Daniel GRINDSTAFF.

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Malinda SPEAR's Estate.

The undersigned has been appointed by the Lawrence Court of Common Pleas, Administrator of the estate of Malinda Spear, deceased. Said estate is probably solvent.

John A. PLUMMER, Admr.
July 19, 1865.

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NOTICE.

I hereby give notice that the tax duplicate of the Town of Bedford has been placed in my hands, for collection within ninety days from July 20th, 1865. The amount of tax charged for corporation purposes is ten cents on each $100 valuation, and twenty-five cents on each poll, which tax, or any part thereof, I shall be ready to receive on and after Thursday, the 20th inst., at my office, on the east side of the Public Square; and if the same be not paid within the said period of ninety days, ten per centum damages will be added.

Levi H. DALE, Marshal.

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Public Sale of Live Stock.

I will offer for sale at my farm, five miles east of Bedford, on Saturday, August 19, 1865, all my stock, consisting of 10 head of horses, six of them mares with sucking colts, 8 fine milch cows, with calves, a large number of sheep, a lot of young cattle, 10 fine bucks, Leicester and Cotswolds, 4 full blooded Spanish sheep--1 buck and 3 ewes, 1 jennet with a fine jack colt, also 1 one-year old jack.

Terms--A credit of 12 months will be given, secured by the purchaser giving note, waiving recourse to valuation and appraisement laws.

Jesse JOHNSON.

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Notice of Application for License.

Notice is hereby given that I will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Lawrence county, Indiana, at their next Term, commencing on the first Monday in Sept. 1865, for a license to sell "Intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at at time," (with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on my premises,) for one year. My place of business, and the premises whereon said liquors are to be drank, are located on lot No. 6, in Huron, Lawrence county, Ind.

I. H. PIERCE

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LOST.

A small pocket book , containing one $50 and one $10 note. Said Pocket Book and Money, were lost somewhere on the streets of Bedford, on the 29th of July.

Any one finding and leaving the said Pocket Book and money at HOWELL & JOHNSON's Drug Store, will be liberally rewarded.

Burton SINCLAIR,
Sergt. Co. A., 52d Ind., Vet. Vol. Inf.

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LAND SALE.

Notice is hereby given, that I will sell at public auction, on the premises, on Monday, August 14, 1865, the following Lots, to-wit: Lots Nos. 316, 265 and 366, in the town of Orleans, Orange county, Indiana. And on Tuesday, August 15, 1865, I will sell in the same manner, all the land belonging to the estate of Thos. W. BUSICK, deceased, and which is situated near the town of Heltonville, in Lawrence county, Indiana, and described as follows, to-wit; The east half of the north-east quarter of section twenty-seven, and a part of the south-east quarter of section twenty-two, all in town 6, north of range 1 east.

Terms of Sale.--One-fourth cash in hand, and the residue in equal payments at six, twelve and eighteen months from the day of sale, the purchaser giving notes with approved surety, waiving valuation laws, and with interst from date.

A. J. SIMPSON, commissioner.
July 7, 1865.

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NOTICE.

All persons indebted to me as late Clerk of Lawrence County, will save cost by callling and settling their accounts.

I expect to leave the county, and will have to place my accounts in the hands of the Sheriff for collection, unless they are settled at once.

D. HARRISON.
Bedford, July 19th, 1865.

Typed and donated by Diana Flynn.